5. The Goldfinch: By Donna Tartt. A painting becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.

6. The Heist: By Daniel Silva. Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, must track down a famous missing painting by Caravaggio.

7. The Book of Life: By Deborah Harkness. In the conclusion to the All Souls trilogy, the Oxford scholar/witch Diana Bishop and the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont return from Elizabethan London to the present.

8. Tom Clancy: Support and Defend: By Mark Greaney. A Dominic Caruso novel, written in the tradition of Clancy, who died in October 2013.

9. All the Light We Cannot See: By Anthony Doerr. The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II.

1. America: By Dinesh D'Souza. A defense of America against the view that its power in the world should be diminished; also a documentary film.

2. One Nation: By Ben Carson with Candy Carson. Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a Fox News contributor, offers solutions to problems.

3. In the Kingdom of Ice: By Hampton Sides. An 1879 polar voyage gone terribly wrong.

4. The First Family Detail: By Ronald Kessler. A reporter divulges details from Secret Service agents about the lives of presidents, ex-presidents and candidates, as well as about the service's failings.

5. Hard Choices: By Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton's memoir focuses on her years as secretary of state.

6. A Spy Among Americans: By Ben Macintyre. An account of the British Cold War spy Kim Philby focuses on the two close friends whose trust he betrayed.

7. The Invisible Bridge: By Rick Perlstein. Society and politics in America from 1973 to 1976, the years between Nixon's resignation and the beginning of Ronald Reagan's ascent.

8. Blood Feud: By Edward Klein. A journalist describes animosity behind the alliance between the Clinton and Obama families.

9. David and Goliath: By Malcolm Gladwell. How disadvantages can work in our favor.

10. Unbroken: By Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.